Kevin Crump and Allan Baker

Kevin Crump and Allan Baker were jailed in 1973 for the murders of Ian James Lamb and Virginia Morse.

Itinerant worker, Ian Lamb, was shot four times in the head in northern NSW and Mrs Morse was abducted, tied up and repeatedly raped before being beaten. Then she was shot in the head and dumped in a river just across the Qld border.

The details of her injuries were so severe they are still covered by a suppression order.

Their murders, particularly the “atrocities” committed to Mrs Morse, haunted experienced investigators for decades. Crump tried to challenge his “never to be released” status, but in 2012 the High Court ruled he was to remain jailed until he was dead or incapacitated.

At the time of their trials, each was told by the sentencing judge: “I believe that you should spend the rest of your lives in jail and there you should die.”

Crump, now 70, and Baker, 72, have now been in NSW prisons for more than 47 years

• Virginia Morse killer Kevin Crump fails in parole bid after 42 years in jail - SMH - February 2016 

• Murderer who raped and tortured mum-of-three Virginia Morse 46 years ago was attacked in the same prison shower - only hours after one of Anita Cobby's despised killers was bashed  -  Daily Mail - July 2019

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